YMMV / The Living Tombstone

• Adaptation Displacement: His remix of Eurobeat Brony's "Discord" is so well-recognized across the Brony community, that many aren't even aware that it's a remix to begin with.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • As explained in this video, his Five Nights at Freddy's 4 song "I Got No Time" can be seen as not being about the game but rather The Living Tombstone himself and the pressure behind the creation of the song.
  • It's rather difficult to see Baldi as a monster in "Basics in Behaviour", since he's never actually portrayed as outright abusive, he's stern at worst. Considering that Baldi was sitting by himself, happily eating a sandwich and minding his own business, it's hard to sympathize with the protagonist (who's clearly terrified of Baldi) when he locks him in the cafeteria, implying that the protagonist isn't right in the head. Surely enough, the red version semi-confirms this, as the protagonist hallucinates Baldi eating a student's head in that scene. It's unknown if Baldi is at fault for the protagonist's condition, though.
  • It is unknown if Skulldude from “Drunk” goes on a bad bender because of boredom with his humdrum life or he is highly insecure about either his appearance and/or something else that the audience isn’t aware of but he is to the point he sings
    Skulldude: Was I just feeling bored? Am I that insecure?
  • "This Comes from Inside" can be considered as a message to Scott Cawthon, the creator of "Five Nights at Freddy's", and his inability to let go of the franchise or simply go back to where it began.
• Broken Base: His distinctive accent has caused many people in the Youtube comments to claim his voice isn't suited for singing, while other fans love how it sounds.
• Cliché Storm: Trixie's magic show in "Magic" is criticized mainly as this (as well as showing more examples in the PMV), but most of the lyrics of "September" qualify, too.
• Covered Up:
  • His remix of Eurobeat Brony's "Discord" has over twice as many views as the original. In fact, some fans don't even know there was an original.
  • A similar case with his remix of Caleb Hyle's cover of "Don't Tattle On Me", a Tattletail song originally by Fandroid.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Drunk Guy (or as the fandom calls him Skull Dude) counts as this for his striking design with a white skull mask that seems to be permanently attached to his face that has a wide range of expressions. The only true canon appearance is in his image song "Drunk". But he does make appearances in some of the visualizers to represent the human half of zero_one despite NOT being said human half.
  • Haru from "Sunburn" counts as this too. She is an adorable Ambiguously Brown Genki Girl who is a chronic daydreamer. She even gets a cute cat-shaped biker helmet once Hina gifts her a pink motorcycle of her own.
  • Also from the same video is Haru's love interest Hina. She's a badass biker boss with a sweet ride to boot.
  • Izzy Deluxe's character in the Dread X Collection song "Hunters" stands out from the other guest singers. An Ax-Crazy Sharp-Dressed Humanoid Abomination monster hunter with a Cannibalism Superpower.
• Fan Nickname: While referred to as Drunk Guy for reference by TLT themselves, he has no real name. Many fans call him Skulldude or Skullguy because of the expressive skull mask that takes up nearly half of his face.
• Fanon: The music video for "Alastor's Game" features a silhouetted man and woman making deals with the Radio Demon. Many commenters believe that the man represents Husk, while the woman represents Niffty.
• Funny Moments: The sheer fact that he somehow managed to make an intentionally shitty creepypasta parody made by OneyPlays into a catchy song is nothing short of both awesome and hilarious.
  • While the subtext of "lazy" isn't exactly cheery, the fact that the music video's gimmick is the video itself slowly degrading due to a combination of the animators having a depressive slump, not registering their software, losing important files, and having their computer give up the ghost before finally just going 'fuck it' and laying down. By the end, they're forced to animate Rust in the final shot by moving a couple sticky notes around. This even extends to the description, which not only lacks a lyric transcript like any of the other songs from The Living Tombstone, but a telltale note left in the credits implies it was just a copy-and-paste job from a chat log or internal email. And before you even open it, you're left with just a single phrase.
    "eh"
  • The bio videos for the Tombsonas are full of them, either due to trying to keep the explanations simple or just for the sake of it. As an example, Rust's video details the origin of its name, and drops both an anvil and the "cool 90s spokesperson" tone.
    Narrator: Rust draws its name from the slow degradation of the cages that are the systems of order that keep us in line, [Suddenly speaking with a mock-Russian accent] obeying the propagyanda of cyapitalism - [Video glitches] He's named after when metal gets gross!
  • In the line 'A bourbon hot toddy in teacup of throat coat'; Drunk Guy is seen not just extending his pinky finger while drinking from the teacup but his lips stretch along side with it. Most if not all the other drinks he just throws into his mouth. Not helped by the way it's done
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: He's an Israeli, but he has a huge following in the United States (probably because he's mainly known for making remixes of an American TV show and an American game).
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The initial Five Nights at Freddy's song contains the lyrics, directed towards Mike Schmidt, "We remember a face like yours, / You seem acquainted with those doors." Although harsh enough (as a popular, albeit Jossed theory back when FNAF was beginning was that Mike was the killer), it becomes worse with Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, its accompanying The Freddy Files logbook, and its heavy hints that "Mike Schmidt" is Michael Afton, the son of William Afton.
  • The Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location song "I Can't Fix You" is essentially a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Circus Baby directed at Afton. The lyrics gain a whole new meaning after Five Nights at Freddy's: The Fourth Closet, which not only portrays Elizabeth as Daddy's Little Villain, but confirms that her father was abusive both before and after her death, enough to make her jealous of Circus Baby and later Charlotte for being the subject of William's attention.
• Heartwarming Moments: Amongst the five Tombsonas, Doc is the only one whose host willingly bonded with them without also having to subject themselves to any pain. After being alone for so long after fearing what their power was capable of, a young fellow approached them and became not just a friend, but a vessel to help contain their power and let them experience the world with a newfound wonder.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: His song, "Die in a Fire," which features Afton dismembering the main animatronics in rapid succession, can be seen as an accurate prediction of the 2021 film Willy's Wonderland in which Nicolas Cage plays a nameless janitor who beats up haunted animatronics at a worn-down family establishment.
  • The video for his remix of "Epoch" is about a bear wearing a hat who kills a rabbit. Why does that sound familiar...?
• Iron Woobie: Skulldude/Drunkguy from Drunk slowly inches away from this (for example being thrown out face first and ending up in the hospital for an unknown amount of time) and towards being a Iron Woobie near the end of the video to the point it's almost painful to watch (e.g. tripping over face first and crawling on the floor while his inner demons mock him). Especially when he first falls into a river of wine or blood and then falls again into the drinks he had that night and finally and literally hits rock bottom. And what's worse is that it's left unclear if he just dies or barely survives.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: Some people view him as this and hate his music simply because it's associated with the Five Nights at Freddy's and Brony fandoms.
• Magnificent Bastard: "Alastor's Game": Alastor, the Radio Demon is a smooth and polite but nevertheless ruthless demon who seeks to gain servants in Hell. A deal-maker, he approaches a pair of mortals, offering them the means to indulge their every desire in exchange for their souls. After persuading them to accept with the help of his showmanship skills, he spends some time encouraging them to live lives of sin before revealing the true ramifications of their arrangement and the fact that they're cursed. While he does acknowledge that they have a slight chance of getting out of the agreement, he's nevertheless confident that he'll claim their souls and knows he'll be entertained either way. Having grown fond of the two, he promises to both collect on his debts and help them out if they need assistance, ending the song by bidding them a jaunty "adieu".
• Memetic Mutation:
  • No Mercy, specifically the line where both singers are choosing their characters, have become a popular meme, especially on the music site TikTok.
  • "The Man Behind The Slaughter" from "It's Been So Long" has also gained newfound popularity on TikTok.
• Nightmare Fuel: Animal has this with vivid descriptions of no longer being in control of one's body and having one's thoughts locked away with no chance of getting them back. And all of this is caused by a bio-mechanical symbiote that is stripping away it's host identity and memories. And what's worse is that it seems the host is aware of what is happening to them and describing the symbiote as a ''creature from a nightmare''
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Corpse Husband made his music debut with a guest spot on "Grim Grinning Ghosts".
  • VivziePop was behind the artwork for "Squid Melody".
• Signature Song: Amongst the Brony community, "Discord" is his most well-known song, but to the rest of the internet, "It's Been So Long" and "My Ordinary Life" are his biggest hits.
• Tear Jerker: He has a few, particularly related to Five Nights at Freddy's.
  • As memetic his song "It's Been So Long" has become, the premise is heartbreaking: it's told in the point of view from the mother of one of the children murdered by William Afton.
  • The video for "Die In A Fire" is both this and Nightmare Fuel. It features Afton hacking each of the animatronics to pieces with an axe, while the animatronics are shown screaming and writhing in pain. The kicker is the part where Freddy and Foxy helplessly watch Afton bring the axe's blade down on their heads.
  • The video for "Epoch", combined with the song, can make you feel pity for the bear, given the fact that he wants to make amends for having killed a bunny.

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